Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 22:29:25 +0100 From: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BTX on USB pen drive Message-ID: <20080308222925.b1f7e9b7.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <200803081611.54820.lists@jnielsen.net> References: <200803061742.34291.vincent@netaktiv.com> <200803070913.12978.jhb@freebsd.org> <200803071418.43480.lists@jnielsen.net> <200803081611.54820.lists@jnielsen.net>
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On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:11:54 -0500 John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> wrote: > Success! I was able to boot my laptop from my USB stick built with > the btx_real patch (after I modified hunk 1 to work with the 7-STABLE > sources). Using the same stick on a different (Acer) laptop I was Interesting. Which Acer model is that? The laptop I have troubles booting from usb is an Acer Aspire 5672. I boot from an usb hard drive, not a memory stick, but that shouldn't make a matter, right? > able to get farther in the boot than previously--it won't even boot > from a standard CD, but with the stick it got to the menu (and THEN > did a btx register dump, but it didn't loop/scroll). > > In case anyone (like Torfinn) is interested, I'm attaching my > modified patch. If you already applied jhb's patch then you should be > able to just cut out the first hunk from mine and apply it. Thanks. I already used the latest revision (1.45) of btx.S and applied jhb's patch to that. Unfortunately, it didn't work. See another message in this thread. Am I correct in thinking that your modified patch wouldn't help me? -- Regards, Torfinn
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